Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet
We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.
You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.
We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.
The purpose of the Operations Manager is to direct all manufacturing operations and manage utilization of equipment, facilities, and personnel to obtain maximum efficiency and meet or exceed performance objectives. Drive manufacturing departments to identify projects and initiatives to meet all plant level and departmental KPI’s. These include Safety, Quality, Productivity and Cost Savings initiatives. Drive Continuous improvement philosophy throughout manufacturing, examples are driving focus on reducing DPPM and TCPM, Cpk improvements, etc. Responsible for training and career development, discipline, and performance appraisal process. Manages area operations and budget for all production processes.
Essential Functions
- Champions and fully participates in all company safety programs
- Implements CI process programs and projects
- Manages relationships with quality, planning, warehouse, engineering, and maintenance to ensure timely satisfaction of customer requirements, projects (including new equipment installations or upgrades to existing equipment), and seamless transition across material/product flow process.
- Supervises shift supervisors in all production related departments.
- Change agent for technological advances; identifies opportunities for site improvements.
- Establishes staffing levels for all production departments.
- Ensures established Company policies and procedures are followed relative to safety, quality, employee relations practices, etc.
- Responsible for the training and development of department personnel.
- Other responsibilities and tasks as appropriate to achieve Company initiatives.
Job Qualifications
Required
- 4-year degree, preferably in, operations management, business management or engineering
- Discrete manufacturing experience: paper or paperboard food packaging along with litho sheet fed printing preferred
- Understanding of SPC and lean manufacturing principles
- Team problem solving; facilitation.
- Computer literate: MS Office required, MS Project or other project management software a plus.
- BPCS manufacturing software system knowledge desirable.
- Strong interpersonal skills: ability to communicate orally and in writing; ability to present information one on one and in group settings, at all levels of the organization, under all circumstances; diplomatic.
- Detail oriented; organized; self-starter; flexible; change agent.
- Must be able to work concurrently on multiple priorities and projects.
Environment
• Spends approximately 50% of time walking and touring manufacturing areas.
• Some automobile or air travel is required.
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.
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What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030. We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com
